MURRAY DARLING BASIN TASSIE FOREST PEACE DEAL THE NZ CAMPAIGN MEMBER PROFILES CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS CLAIRE JANSEN HAS JUST HAD HER FIRST giving program. “Political parties need money to fund BOOK PUBLISHED, PLAYS ROLLER DERBY their campaigns. Financial support assists with our & SHE IS INVOLVED WITH THE GREENS... capacity to win seats, and when we win enough seats we have the opportunity to implement green policies laire (26 years old) of Hobart works for in government.” Tasmanian Greens Minister Cassy O’Connor, More and more supporters and members of The C volunteers for the Party, is a Greens Party Greens are choosing to join their state regular giving member AND a regular Greens donor. program. Regular gifts enable the party to plan and Claire joined The Greens in 2002 at the age of 16. budget for election campaigns – and manage the day “The Greens were a part of how I grew up. But to day running of the party. “I am glad to help – I know there’s also a time when you decide what you think that my contributions – along with those of others – for yourself and why, and that’s when I joined. help put the party in a stronger position to take on Growing up under John Howard, his policies towards the major parties on important issues of our time asylum seekers and refusal to apologise to the Stolen like climate change, treatment of asylum seekers and Generations, watching Labor get trumped by the equality for same sex marriages” forestry industry - the Greens offered a future for society and the environment that no other party did.” Claire’s keen interest in The Greens – and the future If you, like Claire, would like to become a regular donor of the party motivated her to join Tas Greens regular please fill out and send us the form below. YES! 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With Tony Abbott says that, if elected next year, he will those three words she summed up where the island rescind the package and instead PAY the polluters to state’s future fortune lay after the age of dam-building reduce pollution, using taxpayers’ money. He’ll have and deforestation. to get past the Milne – Bandt – Di Natale – Siewert – Honing the message to local business, she called for Hanson-Young – Ludlum – Rhiannon – Waters – Wright products for both domestic consumption and export, – (new Tasmanian Senator) team first. A double– to be authentic. Label it truthfully. Avoid the artificial. dissolution election fought on this issue will lead to Go for quality. Call a spade a spade. more Greens being elected. It’s a word which sums up Christine herself: Christine’s breakfast table, like the average ‘authentic’. Top quality. And you can safely apply the Tasmanian wedgetail eagle’s nest, has a northeastly label to our new Deputy Leader, Adam Bandt, and their aspect and basks in the morning sunlight. She looks whole team. out over the blue waters of the Derwent River from Christine and I have been friends for nearly three suburban Hobart, and has a small, but bountiful, decades.